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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Emotional attachment"”.
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Transformational jewellery: practice-based research on the relationship between transformation and emotional attachment
… research are to investigate the nature of attachment between person and object in respect to transformation; to find ways in which objects (jewellery) can be transformed to engender a wearer’s emotional attachment; and to demonstrate the different ways of applying such transformations that …
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Social media engagement in a dedicated facebook channel : an analysis of relationships to emotional attachment, self-brand connection and brand commitment towards sports sponsoring brands
… social media engagement and its relationship to emotional dynamics that underpin brand relationships between sport sponsors and their customers. The study focuses on two leading sport sponsors, and their respective use of social media (in this case two dedicated Facebook channels) to intensify …
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The personalisation of the visitor experience in the public interior and its contribution to emotional attachment to place: Towards a sensory-emotional framework for experiential design
… to a design understanding of the visitor emotional attachment to place. It posits that catering for a diversity of sensory and emotional needs can foster a greater sense of belonging and wellbeing in the public realm. Insights are brought together into a framework for designers interested …
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Emotional Resonance and Transference in Architecture
… When properly engaged, an inhabitant forms an emotional attachment to a space. This attachment can be felt by later occupants as an experiential, phenomenological quality that cannot be removed from the space. This thesis asks questions such as: Which spaces lend themselves to what emotions? …
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Effect of Fandom on Sports Gambling
… make irrational decisions based more closely on emotional attachment than logical thinking. A total of 191 fans of the Chicago Bears (n = 80), Green Bay Packers (n = 57), and Minnesota Vikings (n = 54) were recruited for the study. Participants completed a survey that assessed their knowledge of …
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Maternal Attachment, Maternal Caregiving Behavior, and Family Income: A Pilot Study
… the prevalence of differing degrees of maternal emotional attachment, the mother's emotional tie to her infant, and maternal caregiving behavior, the mother's sensitivity and responsiveness to her infant. Specifically, this study examined if maternal attachment and maternal responsiveness are …
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Development of a theory of contraceptive practices among single male and female college students
… influential predictor variable was the degree of emotional attachment the females had toward their sex partner. The greater the degree of emotional attachment, the greater the likelihood they or their partner used a reliable contraceptive at their latest coital experience. Females were also more …
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Branding Museums through UGC in China: Insights from the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Era of Digitalisation.
… exposure transforms cultural recognition into emotional attachment and behavioural intention. Comparative analysis further demonstrates that participatory branding outcomes vary significantly across institutions, depending on organisational capacity, platform integration, and responsiveness to …
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Connecting through smartphones: Cognitive, social, emotional motivations, and the experience of value perceptions
… was expanded to incorporate the dimension of emotional attachment.</p> <p>To develop its “motivational framework”, this study adopted social cognitive theory and attachment theory. This study also investigated the “experience of value perceptions” (i.e., perceived social, hedonic, and …
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Exploring first-time nascent entrepreneurs’ on-going entrepreneurial opportunity recognition : a case study of London Metropolitan University’s preincubator
… relationships. This behaviour is guided by their emotional attachment to opportunities. It is found that pre-incubator managers moderate their emotional attachment and subsequent search behaviours. As they (nascent entrepreneurs) rely on various social networks, their confirmation bias mediates …
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An empirical investigation of antecedents and consequences of loyalty for local casino customers
… casino management should increase the customer emotional attachment and switching cost to develop customer loyalty.
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Design for surprise and idea generation methods
… can be an indispensable differentiator-creating emotional attachment and fostering brand loyalty. A two-part experiment tests three different idea generation methods-brainstorming, multiple perspectives, and counter attributes (a new method proposed in this thesis)-and how ideation sketches from …
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Exploring City Brand Engagement: Uncovering the Values of Engaged Stakeholders in Budapest
… place branding, specifically through Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral engagement dimensions. • Brand Engagement Application: The study suggests the application of the Brand Engagement concept to place branding, marking a significant contribution to the field. • Circular Interactions: It …
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A League of Their Own: an Exploration of Fandom, Identity, and Political Behavior
… through Social Identity Theory, but the growing emotional attachment to individual politicians highlights the need to consider political fandom as an important construct for examining political behavior. While partisan and ideological social identities primarily manifest through traditional …
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Bereavement Coping and Intensity as a Function of Gender and Time of Loss for Undergraduate University Students
… the loss of someone with whom they had a strong emotional attachment (Harvey, 2002). This loss could be a friend, relative, parent, or any person that was strongly attached to the adolescent. In today's literature, there is a lack of attention given to adolescents, college students in particular …
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Revenge or Reconciliation? A Rejection-Based Model of Firm-Induced Relationship Termination
… relationship. Third, the moderating effect of emotional attachment on the emotions that are present following rejection is examined, with results showing that an increased sense of attachment leads to greater feelings of betrayal as well as yearning. Finally, as a result of these emotions, the …
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HEXACO Personality Investigation into Parenting: Evolutionary Investment Decisions, Punishment and Real-Time Parenting Behavior
… on a playground. My results showed that higher Emotionality (emotional attachment toward others), as per its theorized role as the strongest HEXACO trait with parenting, was associated with parenting and sensitivity to certain child characteristics across all three studies. Other HEXACO traits …
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Towards a Typology for Understanding Mobile Phone Victimisation in South African High Schools
… advancement of a mobile phone and the emotional attachment to a mobile phone are key predictors of mobile victimisation. In addition, it predicts that the extent to which victims contribute to their victimisation is dependent on the extent to which the victim engages in these …
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Overseas friends of the BJP, the web, and the power of the state in the diaspora
… hierarchy of the BJP and playing on migrants’ emotional attachment to India to compel them to donate money and invest in the country in exchange for cultural capital. In doing so, it helps (re)produce a particular vision of India. Meanwhile, its Facebook and Twitter pages seem to be built …
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Loneliness among widowed persons in later life
… revealed that morale and the social provision of emotional attachment and morale were the strongest predictors of loneliness in the regression model (R²=.39). The results of the study partially supported the proposed model of loneliness. The findings also served to further substantiate Weiss's …
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